Pinterest in the Classroom

Pinterest in the Classroom

Assignment 7

3/3/17

1.What did you learn from the PINTEREST activity?  

This was another new learning experience for me. I had heard of Pinterest, understood it was a web application, but had no exposure to it. Thank you.

2.How do you believe you will utilize PINTEREST as a teacher?  

I can see and feel the power of organizing, creating and following web links by subject and theme. It seems to be a great tool for staying current in a specific topic or subject area.

3.What are the strengths of PINTEREST?

Organizing, creating and following authors,subjects and themes.

4.What are some of the challenges of PINTEREST?

Probably, just me, but I did not find the application as the most “user friendly”.  There was a delay or time lag between selecting a pin and the pin showing up in the selected board. I also experienced problems finding the dashboard page to complete the widget/gadget part of the assignment. I still can't find the boards on my blog - probably did something wrong??

5.What comments, questions, thoughts, opinions, and/or feedback do you have about PINTEREST?

Would like to explore more examples and options for using Pinterest as a teaching/educational tool. I can also see where this would be a nice feature and add to the effectiveness of a blog. I would also like to try the follower feature on an extended trial to see how that works. I am eager to find more ways to use Pinterest. This old dog is learning some new tricks thanks to this class. Thank you for the exposure.